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About the Author
Alexander, Michelle: - Michelle Alexander is an American-Trinidadian poet, creative nonfiction writer, and interdisciplinary practitioner. She graduated from New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, receiving the Herbert Rubin Prize in Poetry, and holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago, where she was a Nathan Breitling Poetry Fellow. She has served as a Poet in Residence for the Chicago Poetry Center and as a Visiting Teaching Artist for the Poetry Foundation's "Forms and Features" series. She is the recipient of the Furious Flower 2024 Poetry Prize and a co-founder + Director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Unwoven Literary & Arts Magazine. Her poetry collection, A Stone's Throw from C r a y, the New American Prize winner (2024), was a finalist for The National Poetry Series, The Word Works Competition: Washington Prize, The 42 Miles Prize, and The Lightscatter Prize. Michelle is also the winner of Breakwater Review's 2025 Peseroff Poetry Prize.